Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1887-11-05


stone. How is it possible to cherish
any grudge against capital so hardly
and honestly earned, so beneficiently
enjoyed Why must every man
have breach-loader and know how
to use it when, this man has made-so
pleasant a place for himself in life
with his hoe and his awl? What
can bombs and breach-loaders do for
him /?
What, indeed, can they do for the
other man who lost his farm? His
step-brother did not wrest it from him.
On the contrary, his step-brother has
been his unfailing friend. But in
the hot hay-days he and his men
would leave work at o'clock, when
the neighboring farmers kept at it
till the moon rose. He had an am
pie herd of cows and abundant milk,
so that a considerable quantity OF
skim milk was thrown away, while
his step-brother always kept pigs
enough to drink the skim milk, be
the same more or less. Half loaves
of bread a little stale, chunks of cake
white-specked with mole, slice or
two of beefstake just turned"
would be lightly fed out to the hens
and waste beef-bones, but half strip
ped. thrown TO the dogs. The. step
brother kept no dogs and made soup
of bones and then burnt and beat the
bone themsslvesto feed the hens: stale
bread was made into hash, before
ever a suspicion had tainted it; and
through the Summer, hay-days and
all, everyone worked early mornings
and late evenings and rested when
rest they could at midday, and in
hay-time hardly that, but could well
stand it, because hay-time was short.
NOT STRIKING HARD ENOUGH.
This is pretty much all | know
about farming, and / do not know
much more about money-making, but
from what little l do know, from
what little ] have seen, IL seems to
me that strikers are not striking
wide enough, are not striking hard
enough, are not striking high
enough. They are only striking
against the capitalists, the coal mer-
chants, the steamboat men, the real
estate holders, whereas they ought
to strike against the power outside
all these, and under which these
men live and to which they are just
as subject as are the strikers. The
laws of the universe must be chang
ed. Brains must be made inferior
to muscle, more common, less useful
and less in demand. Thrift:must be
dethroned, and drinking and smok-
ing put on a par with savings banks
as a means of investment. An idle
day must be made more profitable
than a working day. A community
must be composed of men Iwho will
build up industries without profit
Just as enthusiastically as industries
which bring wealth; ofmen who will
take great.risk, yetademand no more
for it than men who take no risks,
but receive their daily stipend
whether it come from profit or loss
of employers, in short, sswho are will
ling to let their employees manage
the business. Can man by any or
ganizationldo this ?
No; because he is born into an
organization whose laws are exactly
opposite Rich men and poor men
are equally and helplessly parts of a
great plan formed without their CO.
operation, moving on absolutely
without their control, alike insensi-
BILE to harangue, a dynamite whose
action they have no more power to
stay than the grain of corn in the
hopper has power to stop the mill.
The millionaire in Wall Street has no
more power to block the wheels of
the world than the woman sewing
under Brooklyn Bridge; no more
power to reverse it's action or change